2016 NHL awards

[Ottawa Senators]

With the NHL awards ceremony being tonight, let's hear what some of you guys think are the most likely candidate. Here are my choices.

Hart: league MVP
The winner here for me is clearly Patrick Kane. Not only did he elevate his game and become the spark for his team, he made everyone he was playing with that much better.
Runner up: Sidney Crosby

Norris: best defenceman
Erik Karlsson. For me this is clearly the top choice. As this award is listed for the best defenceman, and not DEFENSIVE DEFENCEMAN, I think he has this one over Doughty. He has started playing a lot better defensively then he did in his early years , and to put up a point per game and to be the first defenceman to lead the league in assists since Bobby Orr is a great feat.
Runner up: Drew Doughty

Vezina: top goalie
Most wins in the regular season, backbone of his team, I give it to Holtby
Runner up: Ben Bishop

Calder: top rookie
I know he probably won't win because he most likely didn't have enough games played, but I give this one to McDavid. Coming back from injury he was a point per game player. Winner in my books.
Runner up: Shayne Gostibehere

Selke: best defensive forward
So weren't they supposed to rename this the "second best to Patrice Bergeron" award.... Cuz clearly Bergeron will win
Runner up: Anze Kopitar

Lady Bing: most gentlemanly forward
The ever so gentile Anze Kopitar will take this one
Runner up: Loui Eriksson

Ted Lindsay: MVP as voted by the players
I think that Holtby will take this one by just edging out Kane.
Runner up: Patrick Kane

Jack Adams: best coach
Gerard Gallant. The way that he completely turned his team around and made them a contending team and a legit threat deserves the nod.
Runner up: Barry Trotz

GM of the year:
I vote the GM for the Stanley cup winning Penguins. Jim Rutherford made some good pickups in the off season that ultimately won his team the cup.
Runner up: Jim Nill

[Detroit Red Wings]

All good choices Ottawa Senators and nice idea to post your thoughts, but as usual I have some disagreements.

Kane is the obvious choice for the Hart trophy. Pretty sure if you look at the standard deviation between his point total and the league average it's more impressive than even Gretzky's standard deviation in his most successful year.

Norris trophy is much more close. I guess I'll give the edge to Karlsson for his other worldly point totals, but my gut is telling me that Doughty wins it this year.

For the Vezina I'm hoping for Ben Bishop. Holtby may very well win this award but I think his success was largely because of how good Washington as a team was. They didn't face much adversity all year, where as Tampa had half their team in the hospital this year.

Calder trophy has to go to Panarin. I know people will say he only got 70+ points because he played with Kane, but it's a two way streat - Kane only broke 100 points because he played with Panarin. McDavid is already a superstar who is unquestionably the better player over Panarin, but for me he simply didn't play enough games to win this award. Not to worry, I'm sure he'll take home just about every other one during his career.

Not even going to bother with the selke because of how obvious this award has become haha.

Agree with your Lady Bing choices.

I think Kane takes the Ted Lindsey, and Crosby finishes second. Sorry Holtby you get no love from me.

Agree with both your Jack Adams and GM choices.